Archive for April, 2007

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Here’s our third and final installation of chandeliers from the Swarovski Crystal Palace exhibition. More »

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Japanese architect Toyo Ito has designed Mayuhana, a light featuring a triple skin of delicate fibre mesh, for Yamagiwa (see previous post). More »

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Japanese lighting company Yamagiwa has launched a range of new products, including Bamboo Light System by Argentinian-born designer Pablo Reinoso. More »

April 20th, 2007

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Our blog for the International Design Forum has been updated with images, construction shots and a description of the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid. More »

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: here are more images from the Swarovski Crystal Palace show at Via Savona 56, Milan this week, including chandeliers by Jaime Hayon, Kengo Kuma and the Bouroullec Brothers. More »

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: here are chandeliers by Arne Quinze of Quinze & Milan, Amanda Levete of Future Systems and Diller, Scofidio and Renfro More »

April 20th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Self-styled “industrial tailor” Dick Van Hoff has created a collection of desk products for Dutch ceramics company Royal Tichelaar Makkum. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: this is the best thing we’ve seen in Milan so far - a vase made by bees. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Michele De Lucchi presents the latest fruits of his ongoing Produzione Privata project, which aims to reinstate a craft sensibility to designed objects. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: British lighting designer Paul Cocksedge presents Private View, an exhibition with Trussardi that on first sight is nothing more than a dark, empty room lined in black glass. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Ron Arad has designed Clover, a small monobloc armchair in white polyethylene that can be used indoors and outdoors. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: here are two of the new products Philippe Starck has designed for Driade. More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: here are two shelving units designed by Alfredo Häberli for new brand Quodes (see previous post). More »

April 19th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Marcel Wanders has designed products for the inaugural Milan presentation of new brand Quodes. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Danish architects 3XN and Dutch practice UNStudio have jointly won a competition for a housing project on the waterfront in Århus, Denmark. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Live from Milan: photographer Nienke Klunder has sent us some photos of the giant Pinnochio-style Bisazza installation by Jaime Hayon, taken at Superstudio Più yesterday just before the press preview began. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Sawaya & Moroni opened their showroom on Via Manzani today, showing new products including three additions to its Silver collection by famous architects. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Live from Milan: We can finally show the full images of Muon, the speaker system designed by Ross Lovegrove for KEF. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Also at the Marcel Wanders show are these miniature tableaux called 3D Haiku, showing collections of past objects by the designer. More »

April 18th, 2007

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Live from Milan: Marcel Wanders presents Personal Editions, a large collection of pieces produced under his own name. More »